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I forgot to mention, when you use 3DWin, convert the .dat file to a .dxf then convert that to pov/moray. it works a lot better than converting them directly. Gary blessing <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:GprF4I.2rH@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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I use 3DWin (URL) to convert to Moray (URL) have to re-color the parts, but if you use l3p to make pov files of the model you can copy the colors created to the material editor in moray. I spent a lot of time useing this before I learned to move the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | 4511.dat Train Door Sliding - Type 1 doesn't have texture?
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Just as with my query some time back about shutters and texture... I think the real part has texture (or else i am using the wrong part) but the LDraw version just has lines drawn on it, I think. It renders in POVRay as a flat slab. Do I have a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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nope, there isn't really. There is Moray, but I have never gotten something that can succesfully convert between the two (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Steve Bliss writes: <mostly snipped> I agree pretty much with everything Steve wrote here. As I said before, as a USER I'd rather have a multiattribute shape/connectivity based system rather than "pirate hull" and (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Sorry this is so long. If you don't want to read the whole, at least scan to the end, and read the final paragraph! (...) Nothing. Following prior standards has to do with using 'towball socket'. Saving 3 characters seems less important to me than (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Heya all, I just created USS-Constellation in MLCad and I want it render in POV-Ray. But it's not very userfriendly soft. ;) I wanna ask if there is some utility or upgrade for POV-Ray so I don't need everytime to add new coordinates for position, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGLite orientation matrix (l3p enhancement requests?)
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Jacob recently asked for an ldglite enhancement to dump ldglite command line args and POV camera settings which reproduce the current view. I assume he means l3p compatible camera settings. I think I have it working (except for my question about the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | DAT files to Bryce 5???
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Is their a way to convert DAT files into Bryce 5 for rendering??? RIck (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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(...) Now THAT is a good question. My first instinct is a resounding yes. But it turns out that it's never (that I can find) come in a TECHNIC set! :-) (The 2x2 brick with (side) peg has) -- joshua (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'd like them to be categorized as the part is used, for the most part, rather than with a hyper-technical over-engineered approach. The steering rod is (to me, personally), a steering rod before it's a technic axle with ball sockets. When I (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) What does associating the two parts have to do with using the term "ball socket" over the longer "towball socket"? There's the additional issue here of the two "standards" of ball-socket, the original style (see the steam shovel bucket), and (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) But 'towball socket' is the LDraw-ish term for that connection. One of the problems with associating these two parts is their end-connection holes are different, and it's hard to tell that from the pictures. (...) That's the problem. And the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | looking for Michel Brachmond
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Hi, Can someone ask Michel Brachmond (from Germany?) to contact me direct? He posted some very nice models on Brickshelf and I want to ask him something. Oh, and please don't follow up this mail! Thanks, Jeroen (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have no reason to believe that this is not more correct than my understanding, so let's go with "Technic Tie-Rod". That is probably the best solution. (...) It's a hard question! Bricks that are "modified" in some way are normally called (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Admittedly, it's a bit early in the morning over here, but I can't understand wether you mean that you want the parts to be categorized after the the type of part, or in what kind of set it appears the first time! *boggle* What about the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | My first MOC in 3D
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Well, I decided to test the waters in the LDRAW and related software community finally. I've created a 3D model of my latest MOC Train Car as an initial test. I'll try to find a picture to scan of the actual model. I don't have a digital camera yet, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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[Apologies for replying to my own post...] (...) A quick check of peeron reveals that set 4215, from 1998, did contain the camel head and the subject element (albeit in blue), and that was the same year as the release of 8462 (also having it in (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I like it too, though I think "Towball socket" is a too-long way to say "ball socket". (...) How to determine if it's TRULY a Technic item though? Personally (and I'm apparently in the minority here), I want my part names to work for me (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Horse parts in the parts tracker
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Sorry to reply to myself, I forgot a couple of things (or 1 thing, repeated a few times). For all of the decorated parts (listed below), you might add a new line to the header (between the 'unofficial element' line and the first command line) like: (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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